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Calm down. SSC, I think it's granted that anyone who chooses to write fugues risks comparison with Bach, since his mastery of the technique established the tenets of modern fugue-writing. It was Bach who almost single-handedly turned fugue from a texture to a form, and this composition is obviously inspired to some degree by his legacy.
This fugue was pleasant, but not masterful. Whilst palpable, I feel, in retrospect, that the form may have imprisoned the composition slightly. I also agree with Seraphim that your countersubject doesn't always complement the subject as well as it might, the situation aggravated by a largely irregular harmonic rhythm in the central episodes. There were also several audible, unconcealed and unreadied augmented seconds, which could easily have been disguised.
It seems to me that you and Nico wrote your music with a similar ethos; to compose a revivalist fugue, with inevitable modernisms.
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